Ruslan Khasbulatov

Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov (22 November 1942-) was Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Russia from 10 July 1991 to 4 October 1993. Khasbulatov was one of the leaders of the October 1993 coup against Boris Yeltsin, which had resulted from a constitutional crisis caused by Yeltsin's attempted deposition of Vice President Alexander Rutskoy.

Biography
Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov was born in Tolstoy-yurt, Chechen-Ingush ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on 22 November 1942, and he moved to Moscow in 1962 after studying in Almaty. After graduation from Moscow State University in 1966, Khasbulatov joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and he published a number of books on international economics and trade during the 1970s and 1980s. During the late 1980s, he worked closely with CPSU maverick Boris Yeltsin, and he was elected to the Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian SFSR in 1990. On 10 July 1991, he became Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Russia before becoming Speaker of the State Soviet on 29 October; in August, he quit the CPSU. Khasbulatov cemented his control over the Supreme Soviet and became the second-most powerful man in Russia during the early 1990s, and he eventually became an enemy of Yeltsin. In October 1993, the clash of their egos led to Yeltsin having the parliament building stormed by Russian Ground Forces after the Supreme Soviet voted to impeach him; he was arrested and imprisoned until 1994, when the State Duma pardoned him. Khasbulatov became an economics teacher at the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics as well as a political commentator.